Big Data. Social. Mobile. These worldwide trends are sparking new cloud-based applications and driving innovation around the next generation of open, web-based services development. This tectonic shift is fueling the need for new cloud platforms that provide open services in a secure environment, powered by business grade capacity, and supported with quality service. Companies are looking to a hybrid delivery model to ensure the flexibility and scale that is required to capitalize on these trends.

In his General Session at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Dan Baigent, Sr. Director Business Development, HP Cloud Services, shares the company's vision and strategy behind the HP Converged Cloud and the implications for the enterprise. He discusses how some of HP's customers today are taking advantage of the cloud including how simple it is to introduce a public cloud into a private cloud environment.

Speaker Bio: Dan Baigent is the Sr. Director of Business Development for HP Cloud Services. He is responsible for HP Cloud Services solution partners, strategic partners and business strategies. Baigent joined HP in 2010 as the Sr. Director of Strategic Alliances in HP's Corporate Development group, managing the HP-Intel relationship. Prior to HP, he worked for Sun Microsystems (Oracle) where he was the Sr. Director of Strategic Alliances for a variety of Strategic Partners including IBM, HP, Dell and Oracle. While at Sun, he worked as the Director of Engineering for Sun's Desktop Software organization, as a Technical Portfolio Manager for Sun's Corporate Development team, and as the Western Regional Systems Engineering manager for JavaSoft. He started his career as a software developer for McDonnell- Douglas and has a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing and a minor in Cybernetic Systems. He is co-inventor on several 3-D desktop patents.

A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates! Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10-13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in New York City, New York, June 10-13, 2013.

The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!

Cloud Expo New York will attract more than 10,000 delegates from 48 countries and over 200 sponsors and exhibitors!

All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented at the 12th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network.

"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2013, more than 50,000 delegates per year will be attending Cloud Expo."

Sponsorship Opportunities for Cloud Expo 2013 New YorkCloud Expo 2013 New York "show prospectus" has shipped. Sponsorship, exhibit, and keynote opportunities can be obtained from Carmen Gonzalez by email at events (at) sys-con.com, or by phone 201 802-3021.